David Bell David Bell is a geologist and Emeritus Fellow of University College Oxford. His research and service have taken him to many parts of the world, from the Solomon Islands to Virginia, from Ascension Island to Greenland. Though living in Oxford for oversixty years, he and his artist wife Betsy spent much of their time in their house in the south of France where they came to know and love the country and its people who endured times and events like those fictionalised in this story. Read More Read Less